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Nokia to hire new staff at Finnish factory(Nordic Business Report Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Finnish telecomms solutions provider Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said on Tuesday (5 June) that it will hire 300 new production workers for its factory in Salo, Finland. Nokia said that the need for new workers was due to the increased demand for E-series and N-series handsets, so-called "smart" handsets. Nokia also said that it would try to cooperate with electronics companies that are in the process of letting staff go. Currently there are 2,300 workers at the Salo factory. Nokia, headquartered in Espoo in Finland, is a global mobile phone and network equipment manufacturer. It has nearly 59,000 employees worldwide. Nokia is listed on the Helsinki, Stockholm, Frankfurt and New York stock exchanges. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) Copyright 2007 M2 Communications Ltd. |